The Place Called “There”: (God’s miracle site)

By Pastor Bim Folayan

The Place Called “There”

We often think that our possessions are only physical or material either as a car, building, piece of land or other tangible assets. Just as physical possessions can be handed down generations, so also can spiritual secrets and assets be transferred like intellectual properties.

There are hidden secrets from plain sight, revealed to those who by reason of use, have their senses exercised (Hebrews 5:14) to see, or/and hear, and then act. To these ones, it will belong and be entrusted because they are the ones who follow through the hidden secrets presented to them.

‘The Place Called There’ is a memoir of voyage of enduring faith and friendship with God, through ‘the wildernesses’ of advanced school of patience, trust, and perseverance (PTP).

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798385014101

Pastor Bim Folayan

Bim Folayan is the pioneer of international charity — CET-c for Women based in U.K. In her passion for rectitude, Bim worked for the government of United Kingdom while serving simultaneously as a lay pastor. Under her apostolic commission, she was involved in church planting and progressed to establishing CET-c ministry networks for the purpose of marriage stability and family cohesion, for communal advantage. Bim is the author of several Christian books like “Obedience – The Daring and Determined Way to it.” Bim is described as devout Christian, pastor, and counsellor.

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The Place Called

THERE

(GOD’S MIRACLE SITE)

PASTOR BIM FOLAYAN

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ISBN: 979-8-3850-1409-5 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-3850-1411-8 (hc)

ISBN: 979-8-3850-1410-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023923375

WestBow Press rev. date: 1/12/2024

DEDICATION

To my husband, children, and the ministry of CET-c.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The guardianship of The Holy Spirit

and the special input of Dami O.

CONTENTS

‘A’ PART

The Voyage by Bim

Preface

Chapter 1 The Imminent

Chapter 2 The Depiction

Chapter 3 The Directives

Chapter 4 The Wait

Chapter 5 The Workstation

Chapter 6 The Lighthouse

Chapter 7 The Land is Green!

Chapter 8 The Trees of Righteousness

Postscript

‘B’ PART

The Biography of Bim

Preface

Chapter 1 ‘Abimbola’

Chapter 2 Mission

Chapter 3 ‘CET-c’

Chapter 4 Scriptures that kept Pastor Bim

Chapter 5 Miracles and Manifestations

A Short Interval

‘A’ PART

The Voyage by Bim

PREFACE

The Place Called There (TPCT) is a voyage of diligent rich fellowship with God’s Spirit. The book is designed in two parts present the present and the past. It exposes that rich practical friendship is possible with God in real terms, though God is a Spirit. TPCT journals the episodes in the life of a ministry, and the calling of an individual.

I worked for an affluent organisation that annually provided staff an upfront housing allowance lump sum. I received mine on the first anniversary of my employment. Later that evening I was in a church service, and there came a special call for the congregation to support a mission project in pounds sterling. I was convinced; I knew what I needed to do, and I did it. It was many years later that I got the insight that my actions shifted me to the project area – a desired place.

The A-Part of this book, tells of subsequent episode of a calling, and the journey of a women’s ministry. This aspect I refer to as the unveiling of ministry agenda. It represents how a ministry and its custodian though both tried, thrived. It is about obedience, trust and confidence in a true God who kept the vision from simple calling, and several exoduses through to the Promised Land. The result was an addition C3R (CET-c Conference Centre Residential) which came along the journey of obedience. This book is one of total reliance and dependence on God’s direction.

B-Part offers insights into Bim’s preliminary expedition. It presents a depiction of timely submission to God. A complement to the ‘A’ Part and compliment to God - the Source and Sustainer of calling and the called. This part is a collaborative work by Bim and the book’s editor — Dami Okeke.

‘The Place Called There’ relates a transitional experience of a ministry and its custodian.

Bim Folayan, 2023.

CHAPTER ONE

THE IMMINENT

This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

PSALM 118:23

B orn into a Christian home, Bola (full name Abimbola), rediscover God personally at age four. I learned that there is a heavenly Father (God) who is Father and Creator of all. He can not be seen with the naked eyes, but He is omnipresent, loving and does good. I resorted to this Father, who I’m aware is good; that He would fill the void in me, left because mum was not there. She had suffered deprivation from her home and children, being too simple and oblivious of rights and power available through Ch rist.

I resorted to this alternate good Daddy who lived up there in the sky. He may have had no form I could see, but He was very much there to listen and hear my whispers. I would consult this bigger Father in my loneliness and in my fears. I would have conversations with Him and ask why things were the way they were. I would ask God to make my earthly daddy do affable things, and in some cases, forget his thrashing my brother or me for characteristic childish lapses. Being an affectionate person, I longed for fatherly affection, but instead I faced a strict and tense childhood that regimented my already coy personality, making me rather timid and reticent.

I cleaved to God personally as insightfully as I could. In my adolescence, I discovered a better understanding for a higher life after becoming born again. By divine inspiration, I took a bold step toward the commissioning of CET-c for Women in 2009, leaving everything behind and focusing on this ordained call to fomenting stability and cohesion in marriages and families. Likewise, this conviction saw me through the reality of associate mission tasks. They were pivotal to subsequent mission assignments. I refer to these associate assignments as mission voyages. I was confident that with Christ in the boat, mission was possible, assignments achievable with the help of the Giver and steadfast faith. I embarked on working out the divine mandate to physical actualization. God had designed it that my book "Obedience: The Daring and Determined Way to It" would be forerunner and guidebook.

After completing my tertiary education, I discovered a natural interest in aiding people’s personal development and enhancing their relevance. I started to lean toward human resources management as a career. Although I’d studied geography and earned a master’s in political science, my affinity for personnel services could not be overlooked. In no time I was back in education to earn my postgraduate diploma in human resources management. The hunger and yearning were there for human services. The fulfilment of this calling would begin in 2001 when I was called on to handle the care of a church congregation. Episodes from 2001 launched a phase for me, while 2009 heralded another phase that satisfied my human services knack. This propensity was to be for the establishment of CET-c services to women and families.

God had a plan all along. His plans are good. The Bible tells me that they are plans to prosper (and not to harm) me and, plans to give me hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV). Because He is faithful and true, I took on the instruction for the formation of CET-c ministry headlong. It takes a solid relationship with God, to hold to His designed blueprints for our lives. The journey would entail living by faith in Him who keeps His Word. When we hold on to His Word and His purpose, we are keeping to His schema for our lives.

Grace found me. It is through mercy and grace that I came to the knowledge of Him that qualifies me for eternity with Him. Like apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:8, I also say it is a gift. I call it a mercy gift. Little wonder I felt a vacuum straight after graduation from university. Soul searching, I should call it; I had to face the procedure that was going to give me real life. No wonder I experienced the hunger and craving for an infilling. I chose to fill this void with Christ. It was the only satisfaction I got. This void was a call of destiny, and I ultimately rediscovered God in a new and dynamic way all the way in a Muslim state in Nigeria. I remember my journey to serve that morning; it was as if I was going to make a recovery of consignment allotted to me, as I journeyed with my friend, Stella to church miles and miles away. In 1992 I was far away in the northern part of Nigeria for National Youth service to the nation — away from my comfort zone — away from family, friends, and acquaintances, and yet I was purpose driven in this strange land. Focus? Didn’t God get Moses’s attention in the strange land of Midian, where no family was around to divert his focus and attention? He realized what God was after was serious. Similarly, this was a move and call of destiny and purpose which would soon unfold. I discovered a church where I could grow, was ordained as a pastor and teacher of the Word, and ran an international charity dispensing God’s Word and means to humanity.

I was running a Friday prayer lunch for our fellowship in the community where I lived within the Greenwich borough of London. The sixth of January 2012 meeting took a different turn. The almost two hours spent in fellowship on that Friday were charged and filled with torrents of words of knowledge, edification, and prophecies for me and the ministry. The Lord had used those present to reaffirm the many promised blessings coming to the ministry. Kemi and Bukola, two ladies under the influence of the Spirit, took turns conveying what God had already mentioned to me privately and more.

I will bring people to you from north, west, east, and south to be ministered to in the place I will give you. It will be a lighthouse set on a hill, and people will trace it and come to be blessed of Me and return to their respective places of worship and abode to tell others, declared one of them, conveying what Micah 4:1–2 hitherto promised.

I have always held close to my heart the promises of God for the commission. Luke 1:45 says, Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. I continue to anticipate physical manifestation of God’s promises. The Word of God and the expression of His influence on that fellowship day was extraordinary. These ladies went beyond the physical realm and natural senses as they released torrents of words of edification and fresh prophecies of great things to come.

God does not lie (Numbers 23:19). In 2004, I was working a late shift in the Fujitsu office building. It was about 9 p.m., and I was waiting for the remaining few minutes to pass till it was time to go home. As I stared through the window into the night, from my desk, God enveloped my sight in a reverie. I envisioned taking companies of women on fellowship retreats and resorts, ensuring their respite and relaxation. The travel coach for this special mission was rather apparent in this open vision. I could see the travel coach taking us around and feel the excitement of the women. I knew